Mike Bibby says NBA teams wouldn't let him be muscular
If it hadn't been for the pesky demands of the NBA, Mike Bibby may have been the very muscular version of himself much sooner.
He told GQ earlier this month that he had always tended toward the superhero-looking body type, but had been told to slim down for hoops.
I've always had this build, and I've always loved lifting weights-it's just that when I played, teams didn't want me to lift heavy like that. Every summer when I came back for training camp, teams would always get mad because they said I looked like a linebacker. So it was just always just one set here, one set there-that was all the lifting I did.
Once I retired, I had all the time in the world. Now I can lift heavier. I drop my kids off at school, and I'm at the gym until they have to get picked up. Plus, think about it-no one is really going to want to train with me if I'm 300 pounds and can't get through a workout. I have to make sure I'm getting right for my next coaching job.
Bibby is now playing in the Big 3, where apparently no one is criticizing his lifting regimen.
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